On 01-Apr-1998, S. Alexander Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Not having written a compiler before, this may be an ignorant question,
> but how come you write these Haskell compilers/interpreters in C/C++
> rather than bootstrapping from prior versions of Haskell itself?
Gofer (and hence Hugs) was written in C for efficiency.
ghc was written in Haskell, and hence is big, fat, and slow.
Please correct me if I am wrong ;-)
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